Dear: Hollywood, Please Don't make Pacific Rim 2

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2014)

Pacific Rim is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest pieces of cinema in recent years. I haven't yet gotten bored of it, and it's ratio of "times watched" to "times it made me cry" is on par with the ratio of me and Terminator 2 (1:1 all the time every time). So, why wouldn't I want more, you ask? Here's why.
Pacific Rim stands for everything Hollywood used to be. In the recent years, movie trends have included things like world issues, sequel setups, and the dreaded remakes. Pacific Rim was amazing for not being "any of those things" but for simply being a beautiful robots vs. aliens smash hit.
It doesn't care about world issues.
Every movie has to care about world issues. Casino Royale and the following Daniel Craig bond movies all had something to do with "the world is running out of oil," even when that didn't lend to the plot at all. Even my beloved superhero movies have all made allusions to topical world political issues. There is something to be missed about not necessitating, say, a plot point where the Transformers technology is being weaponized for overseas wars. In Pacific Rim, the world all comes together to fight a common enemy. THAT is the world issue.
Tangent: That's part of why we all love zombie movies so much. It's humanity vs. evil. Period.
It doesn't take itself too seriously.
If you didn't like the "Cancelling the apocalypse" monologue from Stacker Pentecoast, then I don't even want to know you. Pacific Rim doesn't shy away from villainous ploys (the way Chuck says "Raleigh" is masterpiece cinema), monologues, and characters speaking to each other while facing opposite directions. It's a beautiful nod to the movies of old that has an almost self-aware campness. Pacific Rim knows it's robots vs. aliens and doesn't try to give a more serious spin on it, like say, ahem, TDK series.
It has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Open: exposition. Alien monsters are coming from beneath the Ocean Floor. We found a way to handle them. Body: It's not working anymore. We have to find another way. We have one more shot at this with our giant robots. End: ***Spoiler*** WE DID IT!
Perfection. Pure perfection with nothing else needed. The movie didn't go all "The Hunger Games" and split stories up to make us see 4 movies. It started, and finished. Beautifully.
It isn't a remake or a sequel.
Pacific Rim is an original story. It's not the only robots vs. aliens story, but it also isn't a remake or a sequel. Since the start of downloading movies, the only things that have been super reliable at the box office are remakes and sequels playing on my generation's love for nostalgia, prompting us to still flock to the theatres. Original stories don't make it the way they used to, so Hollywood sucks stories dry until there is nothing left.
But Pacific Rim, which admittedly didn't have the box office reception in the West one would have hoped, created a new story starting and finishing it in one beautiful film.
To make a sequel to Pacific Rim is to take what I felt was a statement against the new Hollywood, and completely ignore that to stretch out a sequel. Pacific Rim is the robots vs. aliens story of my little movie geek heart's dreams. Finally, a throwback to the fun of the past when Godzilla was a new concept, and King Kong was a classic. To when remakes of The Shining and Carrie weren't necessary. To a time when if you wanted to see the Ninja Turtles in live action, you had to dust of a VHS or order Pizza Pizza. To a wonderful world where Transformers was a cartoon and didn't need A-list stars and young models in booty shorts to be marketable. To standalone sci fi like Blade Runner and Donnie Darko. To a time when "Her," "Rush" and "The Help" would have done better at the box office that TDKR, Divergent, and Anchorman: 2.
So that's why, Hollywood, I am asking, nay begging you, please don't make a Pacific Rim 2.